The status of a drug is irrelevant to a drug addict. If you're a drug addict, you're getting drugs. That's it. So… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Addiction is a serious desease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Even as a junkie I stayed true, I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger. What a sexy little paradox. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
A buddy of mine was addicted to heroin and he told me that people who say quitting cigarettes is harder than quitting… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
All we can do is adapt the way we view this condition, not as a crime or a romantic affectation but as… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I'm a recovering drug addict, so it's not a subject that I take lightly, but I do agree that the criminalization of… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“Addiction is when natural biological imperatives, like the need for food, sex, relaxation or status, become prioritised to the point of destructiveness.… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
I've come off heroin twice, and the worst part is laying in bed kicking and not being able to keep still. The… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
“This is an invitation to change. This is complicated only in that most of us are quite divided, usually part of us… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
... And drinking neat liquor from the bottle, with all my long hair and my shirt undone and my beads, not so… — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness… — Russell Brand Copy Share
“I was already a weary connoisseur of my dad’s pornography and had begun to develop my almost supernatural ability for guessing women’s bra sizes.” — Russell Brand Copy Share
The right to free speech is important but it isn't as important as 'we're all human beings together, let's find solutions together.' — Russell Brand Copy Share
“now believe addiction to be a calling. A blessing. I now hear a rhythm behind the beat, behind the scratching discordant sound of my… — Russell Brand Copy Share
“The most insightful thing I ever heard, was overheard. I was waiting for a rail replacement bus in Hackney Wick. These two old women… — Russell Brand Copy Share
I struggle in these situations not to let my madness govern me, and to let the positive aspects of my character define my life. — Russell Brand Copy Share
Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony. — Russell Brand Copy Share
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to." — Russell Brand Copy Share
Heres one for Russell; angels are seen unaware,, but people all around me see evil everyday clearly,, what does this say about what people… — Russell Brand Copy Share
If people have some sort of yearning, dissatisfaction or some itching irritability, then it might because they aren't looking in the right direction for… — Russell Brand Copy Share
It would have been convenient to be gay. Just because of the grooming, the narcissism, stuff like that. But I have this kind of… — Russell Brand Copy Share
I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's… — Russell Brand Copy Share
One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access to these… — Russell Brand Copy Share
The need to find out what will happen if I don't relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and… — Russell Brand Copy Share